Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson NPG P450

© Liam Woon / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Liam Woon

Chemist. Wilkinson studied chemistry at Imperial College London, receiving his PhD in 1946. He was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College in 1956. Wilkinson is remembered for his contributions to organometallic chemistry, which is the study of compounds containing a direct metal-to-carbon bond. In 1973 Wilkinson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with Ernst Fischer) for his work on 'sandwich compounds'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.